I've always loved that song. It really is one of Harrison's best. But I've never really liked the production of the White Album track. It seems too muddy or something. I have seen three separate productions of the 'White Album Tour' here in Australia, by A list musos here. They reproduce the album note for note with every instrument played. Long, Long, Long is a staggering song played live. It is just sensational. Btw Yer Blues played by great musos is out of this world.
@@grahammcbean6362 Yes, I agree about the production being subopotimal: recorded a bit too low and the guitar riff in D somehow doesnt do justice to this beguiling melody! A piano or another instrumental arrangement might have worked better...
About twenty years ago I had a very vivid dream in which The Beatles performed Freeda Paine's "Band Of Gold". At the time I didn't even like that song, but they just nailed it. So cool.
Do you have a bootleg of that? (Yes: I know that I just asked you if you had a bootleg of your DREAM!) What would a c. late 70's new Beatles album, consisting of covers of other artist's songs, have possibly looked & sounded like? That could be fun to imagine! In your dream, who was singing the lead vocal?
Side 1 1. Hey Bulldog 2. Back in the USSR 3. Dear Prudence 4. Ob la di 5. While my guitar gently weeps 6. Happiness is a Warm Gun Side 2 1. Martha my Dear 2. Savoy Truffle 3. Sexy Sadie 4. Piggies 5. Glass Onion 6. Honey Pie 7. Helter Skelter
@@evanlevitan2406 that's a tough cut to make. I wanted balance between John and Paul. John was delivering some of the best material of his career that year and the hardest rockers too.
Side A: 1. Back in the USSR 2. Dear Prudence 3. Ob-la-De Ob-la-Da 4. I'm so Tired 5. Revolution 6. Hey Jude Side b: 7. Across the Universe 8. All Together Now 9. Hey Bulldog 10: Goodnight (acoustic version) 11. While my Guitar gently weeps (acoustic Esher version) 12. Blackbird 13. Helter Skelter (the end rift part cut out) songs which were extremely difficult to cut: Martha my Dear, Sexie Sadie, Goodbye, World without Love, Sour Milk Sea, Don't pass me by
Side One: Back In The USSR, Dear Prudence, Savoy Truffle, Blackbird, Long Long Long, Glass Onion, I Will Side Two: Yer Blues, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Birthday, I'm So Tired, Don't Pass Me By, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Helter Skelter. Five for John and Paul, three for George and one for Ringo. Also, having the album end with Ringo yelling, "I've got blisters on my fingers" would really work well...
Hey Jude, Revolution, Lady Madonna, The Inner Light, What's the New Mary Jane, Child of Nature, Junk, Sour Milk Sea, Circles, Not Guilty and the third record is ready!
Great video! I LOVE THE BEATLES! Side one: Revolution While my guitar gently weeps Ob la da ob la di Julia Happiness is a warm gun Blackbird Long long long Helter Skelter Side two: Back in the ussr Dear Prudence Monkey I will Birthday Mother nature’s son Cry baby cry Hey Jude
@@sejrec56 - Around the same time - but they made a policy of not putting their singles on albums. They didn't want to spoil the chance of their singles flying all the way up to "the top of the toppermost."
Although I wouldn't replace any material from the White Album. If I was pressed, maybe get rid of or shorten Revolution #9 (1:12) and add Hey Jude (7:09)
I mean, Revolution 9 feels like a journey, so I wouldn’t agree with shortening it. When you get to the shouting at the end, it feels like you’ve been through hell and back, and having it clip between parts just feels off.
This album is so ingrained in my brain since it came out and with all of the history surrounding it, I can't take it apart without diminishing it. It's moody throughout. It gets somehow nightmarishly dark by the time you get to side 3 and then it drops 'Revolution 9' on you to scatter your mind. I know people generally hate that track, but it was 1968. It is what it is and after hearing it so many times and, like too many people, spent countless hours deciphering the clues leading to how Paul died, I can hear the symphony John intended.
I agree that any alteration makes it less somehow. It took me some years appreciate Revolution 9. Its importance is significant within the context of the album; the idea that a piece so “unlistenable” actually enhances the overall artistry of the album seems like an impossibility, but the Beatles did it.
@@popgoesthe60s52 Of course, the historical context of this being the motivation for the Manson killings makes it even more relevant. To think that a different version of this album might have changed things....hmmmm.
I agree with your dark and moody comment. Though there is quite a bit of straightforward rock and roll on the album too. I suppose I was about 14/15 when I listened to this album a lot. Side four particularly would always leave me in a strange state of mind. When thinking about it now I can still feel it all these years later. Strange juxtaposition of music. Revolution 9 followed by an orchestral arrangement of a lullaby!
Finally, a fun and imaginative way to play the "turn The White Album into a single album" game. Knowing Capitol, they would release the rest of the songs anyway in another grab-bag collection like "Yesterday and Today." Maybe they could call it "Making Ends Meet" or something.
Everyone has different White Album favorites, which shows it's by far their most versatile work. It's also an album I keep re-discovering songs that I had overlooked before. My favorites have changed as I age. Now, I can't imagine it without Long, Long, Long and Yer Blues. Also, without Happiness is a Warm Gun we wouldn't have Radiohead's Paranoid Android. I love your videos, so well researched, thank you!
I really enjoy coming up with new artwork for these Albums That Never Were, and the track listing always get a good conversation going. Thank you for the warm comment, Alexandra!
Love this concept. Your song choices were right on point. The only thing i would change would be to switch out “Bungalow Bill” with “Sexy Sadie” or even “Lady Madonna.”
One of the biggest mistake The Beatles ever made was not to include their singles on their ordinary albums. The reason they gave was lame : they didn't want to cheat their audience by them having to pay two times for the same song. The truth was of coarse that back then having a hit climbing up the single charts was all that mattered. They wouldn't risk that their fans dropped buying the single and was waiting for to spend their money on the album only. Their producer, George Martin said that the biggest mistake of his whole career was not to include John's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and Paul's "Penny Lane" on "Sgt. Pepper." At least when the CD's were issued I wish Apple Corp would have included the singles that naturally belongs to each album - when there was space enough for them. Instead we have a big bunch of fabulous hit songs that doesn't seems to belong anywhere. Fair enough - they have been issued on "Past Masters 1 & 2" - but it is not the same. Hope that they one day will re-issue all their albums this way.
I like the idea posted in the comments about there being two '68 albums - an acoustic one heavily featuring the Esher acoustic numbers released in early summer, and another angrier album released late fall. Both could have lead off with a version of Revolution: the acoustic one with Revolution 1 (perhaps augmented by Rev 9 such as Take 20) and the second with the Hey Jude B-side. Also, imagine what could have been had John and Paul give George more space on these. Sour Milk Sea? Yes! Not Guilty? Yes! Circles? No, thanks.
Circles is a rough one. His most dreary of all time! Yes, there are so many good directions one can go with the White Album era songs, it's staggering. Thanks for the comment.
I think the best album to imagine is, "Lennon '68" What a fantastic album that would be: (side 1) 1. Revolution (single version) 2. Dear Prudence 3. Glass Onion 4. Bungalow Bill 5. Sexy Sadie 6. Julia 7. Happiness Is A Warm Gun (side 2) 1. Hey Bulldog 2. Yer Blues 3. I'm So Tired 4. Me And My Monkey 5. Cry Baby Cry 6. Revolution 1 7. Across The Universe (Anthology take 1)
So you really think Me And My Monkey, Cry Baby Cry, Julia, Glass Onion, Bungalow Bill, Revolution 1 ... are better songs than Back in The USSR, Blackbird, While My Guitar ..., I Will, Helter Skelter, Martha My Dear, Long, Log, Long, Mother Nature´s Son ...? Maybe you should take off your John-glasses ...! To be clear I love these songs, but one should have kind of an objective musical assessment. We could take all of Paul´s 12 songs, add Hey Jude and Lady Madonna - and have a great Paul-solo album ... but it would not be The Beatles! The White Album has great contributions from Paul, George and even Ringo, and that´s the real value of it.
I did in fact think the White album should've been a single disc, when I first came to it. (I don't think that now!) The tracks I'd've chosen then might've been: Obla-di Obla-da, Blackbird, Piggies, Don't Pass Me By, Why Don't We Do It In The Road, I Will, Julia, Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son, Helter Skelter, Long, Long, Long, Revolution 1, Savoy Truffle, Cry Baby Cry. Would that all fit? But now I'm glad I don't have to narrow it down. I love every bit of it!
I'd like to think the White Album in two separate single discs released only four months each The White Album (most popular, softer and acoustic songs) 1.-Dear Prudence 2.-Ob-la-di Ob-la-da 3.-The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill 4.-While My Guitar Gently Weeps 5.-Sexy Sadie 6.-Martha My Dear 7.-Cry Baby Cry 8.-Blackbird 9.-Rocky Raccoon 10.-Don't Pass Me By 11.-Mother Nature's Son 12.-Long Long Long 13.-I Will 14.-Honey Pie 15.-Julia 16.-Goodnight The Black Album (the most rock, dark, strange and avant garde songs) 1.-Back In The U.S.S.R. 2.-Yer Blues 3.-Birthday 4.-Glass Onion 5.-Wild Honey Pie 6.-Piggies 7.-Helter Skelter 8.-Revolution 1 9.-Why Don't We Do It In The Road? 10.-Everybody's Got Something To Hide... 11.-Happiness Is a Warm Gun 12.-Savoy Truffle 13.-I'm So Tired 14.-Revolution 9
This is my favorite episode -- your liner notes even used the same type of lingo they used back then (I used to read the liner notes on my mom's LPs when I was bored)
While my guitar gently weeps would definitely deserve its place on it. They could've done a second single disc album and called it the Black album and put the darker tracks such as revolution 9, piggies, bungalow bill, happiness is a warm gun and other less commercial ones like rocky racoon, glass onion and wild honey pie, making the white album a more mainstream kind of album and the black one a more experimental one. The single white one would have back in USSR, revolution, ob la di, dear prudence and while my guitar gently weeps for sure. You could say the less stronger tracks would be on the second black album but I think maybe it would give the second album a more experimental indie feeling. But ultimately it's the contrast in styles on the original white album that makes it so enjoyable as a complete piece.
You should do one on the differences between the US and UK versions of each album. Plus you should do one on foreign versions of Beatles LPs that weren't released here or albums with alternate covers
In Australia the albums were released on Parlophone, so the content was the same as the UK, but they had an alternate sleeve for 'With the Beatles' -- which the band hated -- they saw it when they toured Oz in '64. And 'Beatles For Sale' -- it was yellow, with live shots of them playing at Melbourne's Festival Hall. It looked like it should've been a live album. Quite bizarre.
I made my own 14 track white album but chose the songs I loved and not necessarily what would have been most commercial. A fun listen, I love this series! (Side A) 1. Mother Nature’s Son 2. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey 3. Savoy Truffle 4. Happiness Is A Warm Gun 5. Helter Skelter 6. I Will 7. Sexy Sadie (Side B) 8. Glass Onion 9. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 10. Martha My Dear 11. I’m So Tired 12. Blackbird 13. Don’t Pass Me By 14. Julia
Thanks for watching. Yes, I love doing these - especially the covers. Every track listing presented is different. I love that no two are alike! Your's is interesting to me because of the unique openers for each side. Thanks for the comment!
The main issue I have with this list is there are 14 songs on it. Capitol Records was infamous for putting only 11 or 12 songs on albums. So, from a royalty aspect, which Capitol followed, there are too many songs. And I would also include one of John’s songs that had not been used up to that time, “Hey Bulldog” I do like the cover 👍🏼
if its a single disc then rev #9 goes out the window so forget it. i have always enjoyed it. it hang over the collection like a cloud. the whole fourth side centers on it -leading into it and leading away from it. i'm super glad they used it because if the beatles can do something that experimental... why can't other bands... but no one did. so... whatever. i love it. great vid.
Totally awesome! I have a single white playlist on my phone, my objective was to halve the number of trax 15 and field the strongest team possible. I share some of your choices but trax I could not exclude are Happiness is a warm gun, Yer Blues, Why don't we do it in the road & Savoy Truffle and I'm so Tired. The single I would choose would be the double George: While my guitar gently weeps BW Savoy Truffle.
I love how are you dead the album that never were it’s really good not just on the album covers but the Tracklistings himself. Thank you so much Matt are doing what you do.
Kudos for remembering Sour Milk Sea. In my eyes, the first modern Motivation/Self-Help song, if that's an honor. With more time, SMS could have been wonderful. Mind you, even though it was a year out of date, It's All Too Much would provably have fitted in, too.
My rules: one Ringo song, two George songs, and the rest split evenly +/-1 song between John and Paul, the entire playlist should not exceed 47:30. (I didn't include Revolution 1 as Revolution was released as a single.) 1 Back in the USSR 2 Dear Prudence 3 Glass Onion 4 Wild Honey Pie 5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 6 Happiness is a Warm Gun 7 I'm So Tired 8 Blackbird 9 Don't Pass Me By 10 I Will 11 Julia 12 Birthday 13 Yer Blues 14 Mother Nature's Son 15 Helter Skelter 16 Long Long Long
Very close to what I would choose myself. But "Wild Honey Pie" does not belong in this company. If you had managed to squeeze in "Sexy Sadie" instead it would be close to perfection.
Very interesting - Love the history ! Nice angels lp & bill Cosby album on display. That wonderfulness album is one of my first records and takes me back to my childhood. Happy New Year 2021
As per your request, here's how I've answered this question for about 30 years of on-line discussions: I keep in mind that YELLOW SUBMARINE was right around the corner, and A HARD DAY'S NIGHT and HELP! (the UK versions) both had one side of soundtrack songs and one side of others. With that in mind, I'd have the first two sides of The White Album released just as they were, but without "Wild Honey Pie," which makes no sense without Side 4's "Honey Pie." I'd then put Side 3 on side two of YELLOW SUBMARINE, and give John and Yoko "Revolution 9" for LIFE WITH THE LIONS (it'd be more at home there, and better than "Radio Play.") That leaves five tracks, plus "Wild Honey Pie" to deal with. "Savoy Truffle/Good Night" could be a single released around November, 1968, giving George his first lead vocal on a UK A-side (and Ringo another one, after "Yellow Submarine"), shelve "Revolution 1" and "Wild Honey Pie" for the ANTHOLOGY, and then decide of "Cry Baby Cry" and "Honey Pie" could be another single from the sessions or if those two could be used in the GET BACK/LET IT BE project. Obviously, "Honey Pie" couldn't be dressed up with the horns for that project. However one works it out, remembering side 2 of YELLOW SUBMARINE is available for 6-7 tracks makes the exercise easier, methinks.
I absolutely love the white album and being one of the biggest Beatles fans ever who is unbiased and experimental no longer at that type of thing I’m so glad that the Beatles White album was not a single album because that would take away from the brilliance of all the different styles all in one album.
This is my version of a single LP. I'm still calling it "The Beatles". I almost had "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" (rock version) on it, but remembered that they still fancied A-side or double A-side singles back then (like "She Loves You" or Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane") so I left those off to fulfill that status: 1 Back in the U.S.S.R. 2 Dear Prudence 3 Glass Onion 4 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 6 Helter Skelter 7 Sexy Sadie Side B) 8 Piggies 9 I'm So Tired 10 Blackbird 11 Don't Pass Me By 12 I Will 13 Julia 14 Birthday
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thanks! Since I'm new here, I'll list a "what if" album I compiled six years ago, where John had not been assassinated and they reunited briefly in the mid-to-late nineties. I call this work "Pie in the Sky" (in homage to the legend of the man on the flaming pie). Many of these tracks are outtakes, a B-side or two - including one from the Traveling Wilburys - the three anthology related tunes, and several pieces that were also finished off by others doing their best instrumental impersonations: Free as a Bird - John This Loving Game - Paul Nowhere to Go - George Don't be Cruel - Ringo Help Me to Help Myself - John 1882 - Paul Maxine - George (still with Petty's count-off) Brian's Blues - John Cosmically Conscious - Paul I Don't Want to Do it - George Now and Then - John Yvonne - Paul Horse to the Water - George Real Love - John This is one fantasy album that, were it on vinyl, I would have worn out the groove!
So for a “Capitolised” single LP white album, I would go: - Birthday - Savoy Truffle - Lady Madonna - Blackbird - Glass Onion - Hey Jude - Revolution - Dear Prudence - Ob La Di Ob La Da - Cry Baby Cry - Helter Skelter - I Will - While My Guitar Gently Weeps I tried to keep it to twelve, but I couldn’t go as bad as US revolver and have 2 Paul songs for every John. Here are some songs that I chose to leave off: - Back In The USSR (the us would handle a pro-Soviet song both Now And Then) - Happiness Is A Warm Gun (similar situation to Bohemian Rhapsody, the multi section Prog Rock wouldn’t sell well) Sexy Sadie (The word “sexy” in the title alone would make the executives nervous) Julia, I’m So Tired, Mother Natures Son (just too many slow songs for them). There may be some jarring jumps between songs (Blackbird-Glass Onion literally being most beautiful to dumbest meme) but that’s kinda accurate to the US albums, especially Yesterday And Today
Damn, you might have just broken the code with this playlist. I might tweak a couple of side 2 numbers but this is a mighty fine listen. Really enjoying the channel, Matt, thanks for all you do!🙏🏼
George Martin talks about this in Anthology holding a sheet of paper, which I assume many people think contained "his" song choices. What he said about his approach was clear - he suggested to pick most developed songs and do those, leaving the others to gestate for a while. The only question is what did he consider most developed ones.
Hi -- just found your post and enjoyed your take on the White album --- I put together a Beatles 68 album that has 6 tracks on side one and 8 tracks on side 2 to go with the 68 theme -- Side 1 Revolution 4.15 Dear Prudence 3.56 Cry Baby Cry 3.02 Yer Blues 4.01 Back in the USSR 2.43 While my guitar gently Weeps 4.45 Total Length: 22 minutes 42 seconds Side 2 Birthday 2.42 Glass Onion 2.18 Blackbird 2.18 Savoy Truffle 2.54 Sexy Sadie 3.15 Martha My Dear 2.28 Helter Skelter 4.30 Happiness is a Warm Gun 2.47 Total Length: 23 minutes 12 seconds
Mine is a mix of my favorite songs with a special attention to sequencing to make sure it works as a cohesive album. I also tried to keep the spirit of the white album intact by keeping as much variety in as possible. Side 1: Back In The USSR Dear Prudence While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness is a Warm Gun Don’t Pass Me By Rocky Raccoon Julia Side 2: Blackbird Martha My Dear I’m So Tired Helter Skelter Glass Onion Long Long Long Revolution 1 I kept tracks 1-2 the same as the original because, well, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. That transitions into Happiness is a Warm Gun just like the original, and I wanted Ringo on side 1 so that goes into Don’t Pass Me By. This transitions into Rocky Raccoon which is the inverse of how it was originally but I think it works just as well. Then I closed side 1 with Julia, similar to how side 2 ended on the original. I opened side 2 with Blackbird-It’s a great opener and picks up where Julia left off. After that is MMD, which transitions into I’m So Tired like the original. Helter Skelter then brings up the energy of the album. I followed that with Glass Onion because I think it carries over that energy well and the strings at the end sound really good before Long Long Long. Finally I ended the album off with Revolution 1. You could probably swap Rocky Raccoon for any McCartney acoustic ballad and it’d work just as well. You could maybe change out Martha My Dear with Birthday or Ob-la-di if you wanted to make it more commercial. You could also swap I’m So Tired with Sexy Sadie if you like it more or Everybody’s Got Something To Hide if you wanted something rockier. Anywho I’ve gone on long enough lol. It’s a fun topic to talk about for sure though
I would've added most of your line up on there, but it would go like this with me; Side One: 1.Back In The U.S.S.R. 2. Dear Prudence 3. Glass Onion 4. Ob-la-idi-Ob-la-da 5. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 7. Happiness Is A Warm Gun 8. Martha My Dear 9. I'm So Tired 10. Blackbird 11. Piggies 12. Rocky Raccoon 13. Don't Pass Me By 14. Why Don't We Do In The Road? 15. I Will 16. Julia Side Two: 1. Birthday 2. Yer Blues 3. Mother Nature's Son 4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except for Me and My Monkey 5. Sexy Sadie 6. Helter Skelter 7. Long, Long, long 8. Revolution 1 9. Honey Pie 10. Savoy Truffle 11. Cry Baby Cry 12. Not Guilty 13. Revolution 14. Hey Jude To me, there would be two versions of Revolution, Revolution 1 would've been the eye opener into how they recorded it and then near end the very uptempo raspberry beat Revolution and accompanying it and closing out the album iconic no. 1 hit for them in '68 "Hey Jude." leading them off into the Get Back and Let It Be projects.
I like the concept of an album compiled by Capitol executives. Brilliant! I've participated in this topic in many chat rooms and I don't think I've seen two people agree on what to include or leave out. And that's just with the tracks that actually appeared on the White Album. If you include passed over tracks and and 1968 releases - oh my! I like your choices or, ah-hum, Capitol Records' choices. It would have been a HUGE selling album.
I feel the problem with The Beatles LP is it should and could have been a three album set. With Not Gulty, Gimme Some Truth with those John and Paul harmonies and all the other songs we know. And to think critics roasted the album when it came out. The beauty of the White Album is a new direction and a maturity.
Here's my single disc, using just the songs on the album. John & Paul get 5 each, George gets 3, Ringo 1. I went with mostly commercial songs on side 1 and what I think are the standout tracks. John, Paul and George each get a rocker and a ballad on side 2. You could substitute 'Julia' for 'Cry Baby Cry' as I hated to lose that song. 1. Back in the USSR 8. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey 2. Dear Prudence 9. Savoy Truffle 3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 10. I'm So Tired 4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 11. Mother Nature's Son 5. Happiness Is a Warm Gun 12. Cry Baby Cry 6. Don't Pass Me By 13. Helter Skelter 7. Blackbird 14. Long Long Long
I can't imagine The White Album as a single disc. In fact, my White Album playlist ADDS Hey Jude, Not Guilty and the Sour Milk Sea edit that Matt plays.
Loved this! Very valiant attempt. And that cover mock up...superb! The only caveat I have with it is that the drunks at Capitol would never have crammed seven tracks per side!
@@popgoesthe60s52 It's not just 7 tracks per side, it's a 7 track side two that includes Hey Jude, a track that's about three songs long by itself! I know this is blasphemous, but you know as well as I do that it's true: the ONLY WAY Capitol would have allowed Hey Jude on an album they compiled is if they either made it the closer of a four song album side or else if they faded out Hey Jude at about 3:35.
@@popgoesthe60s52 I doubt that Capitol would have knocked off two tracks after taking Sergeant Pepper with no changes. By 1968 there was enough music press to raise an uproar if Capitol went back to editing what the Beatles submitted. The Beatles and George Martin were already furious with Capitol for revising their work, and the new US rock journals would have had a field day crucifying 'the man.'
I just started listening to a book, "Revolver" by Richard Rodriguez, which states that when the Beatles signed a new contract with EMI in January 1967, not only did they get a substantial raise, but the Beatles also demanded - and received - a guarantee from Capitol USA that they would put out all future releases with all the tracks and in the order submitted. Which is to say that if the Beatles once again put 14 tracks on this hypothetical album, then 14 tracks it would be. Or 15 or 16?
I always felt there were two ways to reduce the White Album to a single disk: 1) keep the songs in the original sequence, but remove the ones you don’t want, and 2) remove the unwanted tracks and re-sequence the remaining tracks into a new order. That would be a fun exercise. But the White Album’s biggest curse is also its greatest blessing: it’s a wonderful kaleidoscope of moods and styles. Yes, there’s some junk, but those tracks only add to the overall atmosphere. Like the Beatles themselves, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
I enjoy The White Album as a double LP. The only track subs I’d make would be Lady Madonna for Don’t Pass Me By, and Hey Jude for Revolution #9......but then we’d have been deprived of 2 great singles........
George Martin has infuriated some Beatle fans over the years by saying he encouraged the Beatles to make a single album and not a double in regards to the White album. What songs did Martin think should have been left off for a single LP? Even if some suggest "Wild honey pie" and "Revolution no 9" could have been discarded for not being real songs it still left 28 quality songs for a single album.
I just found this post. What a great exercise. As I was watching what you did and why I was impressed with the seriousness of thought you put into this. I love the album artwork and verbiage. Also having three solos in a row was a great choice. I don’t know what life would have been like without having Rocky Raccoon and Piggies. When I was in 7th grade I went to Girl Scout Camp and they were staging a Learning Trail that had different stops where the girls would learn something new. I asked if I could teach a song. The leaders trusted me to choose and teach a song. I chose Piggies. The girls loved it and the counselors were horrified. 😆 I didn’t think damn was a swear word. I must think about this and see what angle I would use and then sift through the songs to see what would be appropriate.
Love the Art design and Great selection! mine has 8 songs per side Side One: 1. Birthday 2. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey 3. Honey Pie 4. Savoy Truffle 5. Blackbird 6. Don´t Pass Me By 7. Martha My Dear 8. Happiness is a Warm Gun Side Two: 1. Back in the U.S.S.R. 2. Dear Prudence 3. Cry Baby Cry 4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 5. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 6. Sexy Sadie 7. Helter Skelter / Revolution 9 (edited) 8. GoodNight regards!!!
Whenever I make a playlist for the car or burned a CD, I replaced #9 with "Hey Jude". Finishing with "Good Night" was a great end, but the post suggesting ending with "Helter Skelter" now has me rethinking. A little off the direct topic, but I always felt songs like "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" should've been released as "McCartney only" and #9 as "Lennon only" on other singles or albums.
What a great substitution! That is really perfect. I agree especially with Maxwell and I may do a video on just that song as well as Revolution 9 since both are so polarizing. I think Maxwell is ok but of all the later day Beatles songs, this one would have been better not being recorded by the Beatles. Some people are ga-ga over it, some people hate it. These are always the best topics!
I like your premise for the album & from that your song choices work, but I think I'd remove Bungalow Bill, which I think is a bit scrappy and not really needed when you have Cry Baby Cry & Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and I'd replace it with Long Long Long, while it is a strong favourite of mine and not a hit song, I think it is really beautiful and it would give the album a greater sense of quality.
I did this once using the rationale of EMI giving them a deadline of the middle of August 68 to finish recording. It turned out to be a very patchy album indeed. Obladi, Wild Honey pie, Bunglow Bill, While my guitar, Blackbird, Rocky, Don’t pass me, Yer Blues, Mother Natures Son, Me and my monkey, Sadie, Revolution 1&9 Goodnight.
Having lived through it, I can only say, the double album with its white cover, inserts etc was great fun. You really had to spend time with it to get to know your favorites. I think some songs like Birthday, Don’t pass me by, Rocky Raccoon, or helter skelter weren’t up to par for Beatles songs and would’ve been happy to exchange them for others in their catalog.
Your mock album artwork is amazing! Down to the liner notes its spot on. Great job! Interesting track picks, but makes sense with the parameters you laid down. Great video.
A 1. Dear Prudence 2. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3. Everybody's Got Something To Hide 4. Sexy Sadie 5. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill 6. Don't Pass Me By 7. Blackbird B 8. Happiness is a Warm Gun 9. Helter Skelter 10. I'm So Tired 11. Cry Baby Cry 12. Julia 13. Long Long Long 14. While My Guitar Gently Weeps Sticking with album tracks only... what I think are the best songs on the album. Hard ones to cut were Yer Blues, Glass Onion, and Rocky Raccoon.
Hey Matt, at the 1965 Sam Houston Coliseum afternoon show, in 1965, when introducting Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Lennon brings up the idea of "Beatles 1980" , would be cool to have that as an album that never was. Whenever I am coloring a video, I always tune into your channel, great content!
I'm a little late to this party, but I've always felt that the interesting question is what impact it would have had on the Get Back/Let It Be sessions? Would those sessions have turned out better if they had more material that was closer to being ready?
I was kind of freaked out that when he said a scaled down to one disc white album, Back in the ussr and Dear Prudence were the exact two song that came to my mind first!
I love your picks. I would buy that album! If I was picking? I am one of those who loves the "White album" just as it is. But if I HAD TOO, I would change it to look like this.... Side 1 1. Revolution 2. Glass Onion 3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4. Yer Blues 5. Helter Skelter 6. Savoy Truffle 7. Birthday Side 2 1. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey 2. Back in the U.S.S.R. 3. Dear Prudence 4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 5. Martha My Dear 6. I'm So Tired 7. Don't Pass Me By
And to those who will say no "Blackbird", "Hey Jude", "I Will", "Julia"...... I GET IT!! That is why I started off by saying "I am one of those who loves the White album just as it is. It was so hard to boil it down to 14 tracks. I think "Don't Pass Me By" is OK, not a personal favorite. But I had to give Ringo at least one song!
My sentiments exactly! While the “White Album” will always be considered a “classic late 60s” Rock album there are “bits” that could have been cut out. Going for a time period “Capitol” look may have been a good idea after all. We were beginning to lose the Beatles as a group and a commercial look may have drawn new younger fans to them. For the older fans it would have been “business as usual” and quite a “comfortable” fit. The stark cover of the “White Album” was confusing to say the least. “Hey Jude” would have been a proper closer. Great work, thanks!
I thought, what if it had simply been issued as two albums, one following the other? And what if the first one contained most of the "experimental" or odd songs, without losing too much commercial appeal, and the second one more a traditional album: A: Back in the U.S.S.R. 2:43 Glass Onion 2:17 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3:09 Wild Honey Pie 1:02 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 3:05 I'm so tired 2:03 Why don't we do it in the road? 1:41 Birthday 2:43 Mother Nature's Son 2:48 B: Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey 2:55 Sexy Sadie 3:15 Long, Long, Long 3:04 Savoy Truffle 2:55 Cry Baby Cry 3:11 Revolution 9 8:13 Good Night 3:12 (Total: 48:16) A: Revolution I 4:16 Happiness is a Warm Gun 2:44 Blackbird 2:18 Julia 2:45 Martha My Dear 2:29 Piggies 2:05 Honey Pie 2:41 I Will 1:47 B: Don't Pass Me By 3:42 Rocky Raccoon 3:41 Yer Blues 4:01 Helter Skelter 4:30 Dear Prudence 3:57 (Can You Take Me Back) :28 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4:45 (Total: 47:09)
Side One... *As My Guitar Gently Weeps *Glass Onion *Happiness Is A Warm Gun *Helter Skelter *Julia *Blackbird *Cry Baby Cry *Long Long, Long Side Two... *Back In The USSR *Dear Prudence *Savoy Truffle *Revolution *Sexy Sadie *... Gently Weeps (new strings version) *Good Night (anthology version)
An excellent Frankenstein creation. I love the concept and the back story you created for this. The album tracks you chose are great. I think I’d choose “Rocky Racoon” instead of “Bungalow Bill”, and I’d make sure “I Will” got on there somehow, and bump one of the others, if need be.
We are no longer under the law of sin and death. Announcer I don't know your name but you are doing a great job and I am sure all these Beatles people truly appreciate your vids. They're so interesting. Thank you so much.
A 3 lp/ 6 sided edition would be great. Using the leftover/not used tracks plus Hey Bulldog, All Together Now, All Too Much (the 8 + minute Version) and Only a Northern Song, Lady Madonna and The Inner Light, too.
Here's my current single disc white album (my track list changes every time I do it): 1. Back in the USSR 2. Dear Prudence 3. Ob la di 4. Mother Nature's Son 5. Helter Skelter 6. Bungalow Bill 7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 8. Happiness is a Warm Gun 9. Blackbird 10. Yer Blues 11. Everybody's got something to hide 12. Rocky Racoon 13. Sexy Sadie 14. Cry Baby Cry 15. I Will 16. I'm so Tired 17. Julia
Very enjoyable video. I sure would be keen to know why the fantastic "Hey Bulldog", recorded in February of 1968, was left off the White (Double) Album in the first place. I think it would have deserved inclusion even if the White Album were pruned down to a single disc. It seems to me it would have been one of the double album's highlights, and its inclusion would have granted it much greater fame, which it richly deserved.
Yeah, I've always been a fan of Hey Bulldog, it always sounded like it had single potential. It certainly gets talked about a lot now and I still hear bands do it live. Maybe they thought it was recorded too early or they left it for the Yellow Sub project, but it would have fit on the White Album for sure. Thanks for the comment!
Happiness Is A Warm Gun would be a certainty for me. One of the finest songs they made, in my opinion.
I think at one point Paul said it was his his favorite track from the W.A.
Ainsley Harriott’s right!
The first segment is gorgeous.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE LENNON SONGS
Yep, how do you prune those great songs down into a single album.
I would have to put I Will on there . This is one of McCartney's most haunting love songs since Yesterday, definitely one of the best on the album...
Long, long, long - probably the most underrated Beatls track. What a hauntingly dark and yet sweet, warm, beautiful song it is!
That should have been the closer.
If only the ending was different
Before I read the comments, I was going to write the same, pretty much word for word!
I've always loved that song. It really is one of Harrison's best. But I've never really liked the production of the White Album track. It seems too muddy or something. I have seen three separate productions of the 'White Album Tour' here in Australia, by A list musos here. They reproduce the album note for note with every instrument played. Long, Long, Long is a staggering song played live. It is just sensational. Btw Yer Blues played by great musos is out of this world.
@@grahammcbean6362 Yes, I agree about the production being subopotimal: recorded a bit too low and the guitar riff in D somehow doesnt do justice to this beguiling melody! A piano or another instrumental arrangement might have worked better...
You forgot "Everybody's Got Something to Hide, Except for Me and My Monkey", one of the finest rockers of all time. Sheer energy put to music.
Nice move. But in the end, I'd go along with Paul: "It's the bloody White Album - so shut up!" mysterious & unique = great
I agree. It’s my favorite album from front to back.
I can't pass one my most underrated in 'I'm So Tired'
You only have to play it & you feel sleepy & then YOU GET ANGRRRY!
@@seltaeb3302 That "I'd give you everything I've got for a little piece of mind" line, right?
About twenty years ago I had a very vivid dream in which The Beatles performed Freeda Paine's "Band Of Gold". At the time I didn't even like that song, but they just nailed it. So cool.
Do you have a bootleg of that? (Yes: I know that I just asked you if you had a bootleg of your DREAM!)
What would a c. late 70's new Beatles album, consisting of covers of other artist's songs, have possibly looked & sounded like? That could be fun to imagine!
In your dream, who was singing the lead vocal?
I absolutely love the White Album. Zero changes needed
Side 1
1. Hey Bulldog
2. Back in the USSR
3. Dear Prudence
4. Ob la di
5. While my guitar gently weeps
6. Happiness is a Warm Gun
Side 2
1. Martha my Dear
2. Savoy Truffle
3. Sexy Sadie
4. Piggies
5. Glass Onion
6. Honey Pie
7. Helter Skelter
I dont see I'm So Tired...
@@evanlevitan2406 that's a tough cut to make. I wanted balance between John and Paul. John was delivering some of the best material of his career that year and the hardest rockers too.
Revolution would have made a great album opener and 'statement' for a new '68' album.
Always thought it was criminal that Sour Milk Sea got passed on.
Cry Baby Cry was a great choice...a very underrated song!
Side A:
1. Back in the USSR
2. Dear Prudence
3. Ob-la-De Ob-la-Da
4. I'm so Tired
5. Revolution
6. Hey Jude
Side b:
7. Across the Universe
8. All Together Now
9. Hey Bulldog
10: Goodnight (acoustic version)
11. While my Guitar gently weeps (acoustic Esher version)
12. Blackbird
13. Helter Skelter (the end rift part cut out)
songs which were extremely difficult to cut: Martha my Dear, Sexie Sadie, Goodbye, World without Love, Sour Milk Sea, Don't pass me by
Side One: Back In The USSR, Dear Prudence, Savoy Truffle, Blackbird, Long Long Long, Glass Onion, I Will Side Two: Yer Blues, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Birthday, I'm So Tired, Don't Pass Me By, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Helter Skelter. Five for John and Paul, three for George and one for Ringo. Also, having the album end with Ringo yelling, "I've got blisters on my fingers" would really work well...
That's a great line up and I agree with Ringo getting the last word!
Great selection 👍
If anything, they left off among others, "Hey Jude" and singles version of "Revolution!" Put out a three disc set!
Hey Jude, Revolution, Lady Madonna, The Inner Light, What's the New Mary Jane, Child of Nature, Junk, Sour Milk Sea, Circles, Not Guilty and the third record is ready!
@@dimitriballas5283 and hey bulldog! Instead of put the song in yellow submarine soundtrack
Great video!
I LOVE THE BEATLES!
Side one:
Revolution
While my guitar gently weeps
Ob la da ob la di
Julia
Happiness is a warm gun
Blackbird
Long long long
Helter Skelter
Side two:
Back in the ussr
Dear Prudence
Monkey
I will
Birthday
Mother nature’s son
Cry baby cry
Hey Jude
Yeah adding Revolution and Hey Jude would be Good too. When did they do Lady Madonna? Maybe that too.
@@sejrec56 - Around the same time - but they made a policy of not putting their singles on albums.
They didn't want to spoil the chance of their singles flying all the way up to "the top of the toppermost."
Although I wouldn't replace any material from the White Album. If I was pressed, maybe get rid of or shorten Revolution #9 (1:12) and add Hey Jude (7:09)
I mean, Revolution 9 feels like a journey, so I wouldn’t agree with shortening it. When you get to the shouting at the end, it feels like you’ve been through hell and back, and having it clip between parts just feels off.
I think the alternative would be to have Revolution 20 instead, staring like Revolution 1 and editing in the screams from 9 at the end
This album is so ingrained in my brain since it came out and with all of the history surrounding it, I can't take it apart without diminishing it. It's moody throughout. It gets somehow nightmarishly dark by the time you get to side 3 and then it drops 'Revolution 9' on you to scatter your mind. I know people generally hate that track, but it was 1968. It is what it is and after hearing it so many times and, like too many people, spent countless hours deciphering the clues leading to how Paul died, I can hear the symphony John intended.
I agree that any alteration makes it less somehow. It took me some years appreciate Revolution 9. Its importance is significant within the context of the album; the idea that a piece so “unlistenable” actually enhances the overall artistry of the album seems like an impossibility, but the Beatles did it.
@@popgoesthe60s52 Of course, the historical context of this being the motivation for the Manson killings makes it even more relevant. To think that a different version of this album might have changed things....hmmmm.
I agree with your dark and moody comment. Though there is quite a bit of straightforward rock and roll on the album too. I suppose I was about 14/15 when I listened to this album a lot. Side four particularly would always leave me in a strange state of mind. When thinking about it now I can still feel it all these years later. Strange juxtaposition of music. Revolution 9 followed by an orchestral arrangement of a lullaby!
One interesting way of paring down the track list would be to only include the 16 tracks that included all four Beatles!
I would replace Obladi by Happiness is a warm gun because that song opens new ways in music.
Finally, a fun and imaginative way to play the "turn The White Album into a single album" game. Knowing Capitol, they would release the rest of the songs anyway in another grab-bag collection like "Yesterday and Today." Maybe they could call it "Making Ends Meet" or something.
Everyone has different White Album favorites, which shows it's by far their most versatile work. It's also an album I keep re-discovering songs that I had overlooked before. My favorites have changed as I age. Now, I can't imagine it without Long, Long, Long and Yer Blues. Also, without Happiness is a Warm Gun we wouldn't have Radiohead's Paranoid Android. I love your videos, so well researched, thank you!
I really enjoy coming up with new artwork for these Albums That Never Were, and the track listing always get a good conversation going. Thank you for the warm comment, Alexandra!
Love this concept. Your song choices were right on point. The only thing i would change would be to switch out “Bungalow Bill” with “Sexy Sadie” or even “Lady Madonna.”
Those are good suggestions. Lady Madonna would have fit perfectly.
@@popgoesthe60s52 Lady Madonna. I think perhaps he didn’t think about it bc it was from early ‘68.
Oh Lady Madonna would be perfect for this concept especially since it was never on an actual album
One of the biggest mistake The Beatles ever made was not to include their singles on their ordinary
albums. The reason they gave was lame : they didn't want to cheat their audience by them having
to pay two times for the same song.
The truth was of coarse that back then having a hit climbing up the single charts was all that mattered.
They wouldn't risk that their fans dropped buying the single and was waiting for to spend their money
on the album only.
Their producer, George Martin said that the biggest mistake of his whole career was not to include
John's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and Paul's "Penny Lane" on "Sgt. Pepper."
At least when the CD's were issued I wish Apple Corp would have included the singles that naturally
belongs to each album - when there was space enough for them.
Instead we have a big bunch of fabulous hit songs that doesn't seems to belong anywhere.
Fair enough - they have been issued on "Past Masters 1 & 2" - but it is not the same.
Hope that they one day will re-issue all their albums this way.
@@spiritualarchitect4276 No, the second one includes other spy thrillers like Man From Uncle and I Spy.
I just found your channel over the last few days. I love what you're building with such unique content. Keep up the great work!
Would have been an even stronger classic album if it had Lady Madonna, Hey Bulldog, Hey Jude, and Revolution [loud version].
Those would have made it the best album of all time.
Agreed.
I like the idea posted in the comments about there being two '68 albums - an acoustic one heavily featuring the Esher acoustic numbers released in early summer, and another angrier album released late fall. Both could have lead off with a version of Revolution: the acoustic one with Revolution 1 (perhaps augmented by Rev 9 such as Take 20) and the second with the Hey Jude B-side. Also, imagine what could have been had John and Paul give George more space on these. Sour Milk Sea? Yes! Not Guilty? Yes! Circles? No, thanks.
Circles is a rough one. His most dreary of all time! Yes, there are so many good directions one can go with the White Album era songs, it's staggering. Thanks for the comment.
I think the best album to imagine is, "Lennon '68" What a fantastic album that would be:
(side 1)
1. Revolution (single version)
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Bungalow Bill
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Julia
7. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
(side 2)
1. Hey Bulldog
2. Yer Blues
3. I'm So Tired
4. Me And My Monkey
5. Cry Baby Cry
6. Revolution 1
7. Across The Universe (Anthology take 1)
Very nice. Paul and George could get a side each to make it a triple album!
Paul helped write many of those songs, and he, George and Ringo greatly contributed to how they ended up sounding, so that's a daft idea.
So you really think Me And My Monkey, Cry Baby Cry, Julia, Glass Onion, Bungalow Bill, Revolution 1 ... are better songs than Back in The USSR, Blackbird, While My Guitar ..., I Will, Helter Skelter, Martha My Dear, Long, Log, Long, Mother Nature´s Son ...? Maybe you should take off your John-glasses ...!
To be clear I love these songs, but one should have kind of an objective musical assessment.
We could take all of Paul´s 12 songs, add Hey Jude and Lady Madonna - and have a great Paul-solo album ... but it would not be The Beatles! The White Album has great contributions from Paul, George and even Ringo, and that´s the real value of it.
I did in fact think the White album should've been a single disc, when I first came to it. (I don't think that now!) The tracks I'd've chosen then might've been: Obla-di Obla-da, Blackbird, Piggies, Don't Pass Me By, Why Don't We Do It In The Road, I Will, Julia, Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son, Helter Skelter, Long, Long, Long, Revolution 1, Savoy Truffle, Cry Baby Cry. Would that all fit? But now I'm glad I don't have to narrow it down. I love every bit of it!
I'd like to think the White Album in two separate single discs released only four months each
The White Album (most popular, softer and acoustic songs)
1.-Dear Prudence
2.-Ob-la-di Ob-la-da
3.-The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
4.-While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5.-Sexy Sadie
6.-Martha My Dear
7.-Cry Baby Cry
8.-Blackbird
9.-Rocky Raccoon
10.-Don't Pass Me By
11.-Mother Nature's Son
12.-Long Long Long
13.-I Will
14.-Honey Pie
15.-Julia
16.-Goodnight
The Black Album (the most rock, dark, strange and avant garde songs)
1.-Back In The U.S.S.R.
2.-Yer Blues
3.-Birthday
4.-Glass Onion
5.-Wild Honey Pie
6.-Piggies
7.-Helter Skelter
8.-Revolution 1
9.-Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
10.-Everybody's Got Something To Hide...
11.-Happiness Is a Warm Gun
12.-Savoy Truffle
13.-I'm So Tired
14.-Revolution 9
I like the concept! We’ll done.
@@popgoesthe60s52Thanks and happy new year
This is my favorite episode -- your liner notes even used the same type of lingo they used back then (I used to read the liner notes on my mom's LPs when I was bored)
While my guitar gently weeps would definitely deserve its place on it. They could've done a second single disc album and called it the Black album and put the darker tracks such as revolution 9, piggies, bungalow bill, happiness is a warm gun and other less commercial ones like rocky racoon, glass onion and wild honey pie, making the white album a more mainstream kind of album and the black one a more experimental one. The single white one would have back in USSR, revolution, ob la di, dear prudence and while my guitar gently weeps for sure. You could say the less stronger tracks would be on the second black album but I think maybe it would give the second album a more experimental indie feeling. But ultimately it's the contrast in styles on the original white album that makes it so enjoyable as a complete piece.
Your idea is very clever and interesting.
You should do one on the differences between the US and UK versions of each album.
Plus you should do one on foreign versions of Beatles LPs that weren't released here or albums with alternate covers
Great idea....
In Australia the albums were released on Parlophone, so the content was the same as the UK, but they had an alternate sleeve for 'With the Beatles' -- which the band hated -- they saw it when they toured Oz in '64. And 'Beatles For Sale' -- it was yellow, with live shots of them playing at Melbourne's Festival Hall. It looked like it should've been a live album. Quite bizarre.
So many great songs left out. Would definitely have happiness is a warm gun, and would have good night miles ahead of don't pass me by.
Hypothetical Beatles albums. You know, if you put together all the Beatles songs that Ringo sang lead on, you'd have a pretty good album there, too.
I made my own 14 track white album but chose the songs I loved and not necessarily what would have been most commercial. A fun listen, I love this series!
(Side A)
1. Mother Nature’s Son
2. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
3. Savoy Truffle
4. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
5. Helter Skelter
6. I Will
7. Sexy Sadie
(Side B)
8. Glass Onion
9. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10. Martha My Dear
11. I’m So Tired
12. Blackbird
13. Don’t Pass Me By
14. Julia
Thanks for watching. Yes, I love doing these - especially the covers. Every track listing presented is different. I love that no two are alike! Your's is interesting to me because of the unique openers for each side. Thanks for the comment!
The main issue I have with this list is there are 14 songs on it.
Capitol Records was infamous for putting only 11 or 12 songs on albums.
So, from a royalty aspect, which Capitol followed, there are too many songs.
And I would also include one of John’s songs that had not been used up to that time, “Hey Bulldog”
I do like the cover 👍🏼
You're right about the 12 tracks but I had a hard time getting it down to 14! Hey Bulldog would have been a good addition.
Capitol Records stopped doing that in '67 with Sgt. Pepper's.
The packaging is awesome. Great choice of images and the liner notes are period.
Much thanks! i have a few more _Albums That Never Were_ in the works so stay tuned!
"The Sgt Pepper myth is bigger but the White Album is far superior"- John Lennon
if its a single disc then rev #9 goes out the window so forget it. i have always enjoyed it. it hang over the collection like a cloud. the whole fourth side centers on it -leading into it and leading away from it. i'm super glad they used it because if the beatles can do something that experimental... why can't other bands... but no one did. so... whatever. i love it.
great vid.
Thank you Matt! Sour Milk Sea is amazing...George The Motivational Speaker!
One of my favourites from the white album was Happiness is a warm gun
Totally awesome! I have a single white playlist on my phone, my objective was to halve the number of trax 15 and field the strongest team possible. I share some of your choices but trax I could not exclude are Happiness is a warm gun, Yer Blues, Why don't we do it in the road & Savoy Truffle and I'm so Tired. The single I would choose would be the double George: While my guitar gently weeps BW Savoy Truffle.
Woa. I just noticed that you eliminated Happiness Is A Warm Gun.
I love how are you dead the album that never were it’s really good not just on the album covers but the Tracklistings himself. Thank you so much Matt are doing what you do.
Kudos for remembering Sour Milk Sea. In my eyes, the first modern Motivation/Self-Help song, if that's an honor.
With more time, SMS could have been wonderful.
Mind you, even though it was a year out of date, It's All Too Much would provably have fitted in, too.
I appreciate the love for Sour Milk Sea! Ditto It's All Too Much. Thanks for watching.
The Beatles. You never mess with perfection. The Beatles are the greatest band ever. Nuff Said.
Most of their songs was perfection - but they way it was being packaged and sold was sometimes lame.
Especially the albums in the US.
I love the James Bond soundtrack albums in the background. I had all of those!
Thank you! In the future I will be doing a video on those as well, so stay tuned!
Why don’t we do it in the road has to be there. Lennon loved it
Ha, you cheeky bastard !
I love the selections for this album that never was. Makes a really fun video. Thanks!
Great album Matt. Fantastic! Very cool...
Omitting Helter Skelter would have changed history and the bizarre mystique of the album.
Yeah,no 'Piggies' either so Manson would have to blame something else for his bloody rampage
@@normandavidtidiman9918 Maybe he would have been influenced by Iron Butterfly, or the Moody Blues, instead.
Absolutely! Can't leave that off.
My rules: one Ringo song, two George songs, and the rest split evenly +/-1 song between John and Paul, the entire playlist should not exceed 47:30. (I didn't include Revolution 1 as Revolution was released as a single.)
1 Back in the USSR
2 Dear Prudence
3 Glass Onion
4 Wild Honey Pie
5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6 Happiness is a Warm Gun
7 I'm So Tired
8 Blackbird
9 Don't Pass Me By
10 I Will
11 Julia
12 Birthday
13 Yer Blues
14 Mother Nature's Son
15 Helter Skelter
16 Long Long Long
You packed a lot into this comp - nicely done!
Very close to what I would choose myself.
But "Wild Honey Pie" does not belong in this company.
If you had managed to squeeze in "Sexy Sadie" instead it would be close to perfection.
Minus Dont pass me by, which imo is one of the worst songs in the package
@@tomrogerlilleby2890 Just added Wild Honey Pie as I had time for filler.
@@sejrec56 I greatly prefer Don't Pass Me By to Good Night. If you're going to include a Ringo song, Don't Pass Me By seems to be the obvious choice.
I love your channel Matt! I wish I could add your gorgeous record sleeve design to my collection 😍
fantastic series , at last someone talking about the fab four in a proper manner
I've played the 'Make one really good single album out of the White Album' since I was a teenager. Somehow it never quite seems to work though.
I can't improve by reduction either. I get more enjoyment out of doing the artwork! Thanks for the comment.
Very interesting - Love the history ! Nice angels lp & bill Cosby album on display. That wonderfulness album is one of my first records and takes me back to my childhood. Happy New Year 2021
As per your request, here's how I've answered this question for about 30 years of on-line discussions:
I keep in mind that YELLOW SUBMARINE was right around the corner, and A HARD DAY'S NIGHT and HELP! (the UK versions) both had one side of soundtrack songs and one side of others. With that in mind, I'd have the first two sides of The White Album released just as they were, but without "Wild Honey Pie," which makes no sense without Side 4's "Honey Pie." I'd then put Side 3 on side two of YELLOW SUBMARINE, and give John and Yoko "Revolution 9" for LIFE WITH THE LIONS (it'd be more at home there, and better than "Radio Play.") That leaves five tracks, plus "Wild Honey Pie" to deal with. "Savoy Truffle/Good Night" could be a single released around November, 1968, giving George his first lead vocal on a UK A-side (and Ringo another one, after "Yellow Submarine"), shelve "Revolution 1" and "Wild Honey Pie" for the ANTHOLOGY, and then decide of "Cry Baby Cry" and "Honey Pie" could be another single from the sessions or if those two could be used in the GET BACK/LET IT BE project. Obviously, "Honey Pie" couldn't be dressed up with the horns for that project.
However one works it out, remembering side 2 of YELLOW SUBMARINE is available for 6-7 tracks makes the exercise easier, methinks.
I absolutely love the white album and being one of the biggest Beatles fans ever who is unbiased and experimental no longer at that type of thing I’m so glad that the Beatles White album was not a single album because that would take away from the brilliance of all the different styles all in one album.
This is my version of a single LP. I'm still calling it "The Beatles". I almost had "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" (rock version) on it, but remembered that they still fancied A-side or double A-side singles back then (like "She Loves You" or Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane") so I left those off to fulfill that status:
1 Back in the U.S.S.R.
2 Dear Prudence
3 Glass Onion
4 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6 Helter Skelter
7 Sexy Sadie
Side B)
8 Piggies
9 I'm So Tired
10 Blackbird
11 Don't Pass Me By
12 I Will
13 Julia
14 Birthday
You hit the biggies! Nice tracklisting.
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thanks! Since I'm new here, I'll list a "what if" album I compiled six years ago, where John had not been assassinated and they reunited briefly in the mid-to-late nineties. I call this work "Pie in the Sky" (in homage to the legend of the man on the flaming pie). Many of these tracks are outtakes, a B-side or two - including one from the Traveling Wilburys - the three anthology related tunes, and several pieces that were also finished off by others doing their best instrumental impersonations:
Free as a Bird - John
This Loving Game - Paul
Nowhere to Go - George
Don't be Cruel - Ringo
Help Me to Help Myself - John
1882 - Paul
Maxine - George (still with Petty's count-off)
Brian's Blues - John
Cosmically Conscious - Paul
I Don't Want to Do it - George
Now and Then - John
Yvonne - Paul
Horse to the Water - George
Real Love - John
This is one fantasy album that, were it on vinyl, I would have worn out the groove!
So for a “Capitolised” single LP white album, I would go:
- Birthday
- Savoy Truffle
- Lady Madonna
- Blackbird
- Glass Onion
- Hey Jude
- Revolution
- Dear Prudence
- Ob La Di Ob La Da
- Cry Baby Cry
- Helter Skelter
- I Will
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I tried to keep it to twelve, but I couldn’t go as bad as US revolver and have 2 Paul songs for every John. Here are some songs that I chose to leave off:
- Back In The USSR (the us would handle a pro-Soviet song both Now And Then)
- Happiness Is A Warm Gun (similar situation to Bohemian Rhapsody, the multi section Prog Rock wouldn’t sell well)
Sexy Sadie (The word “sexy” in the title alone would make the executives nervous)
Julia, I’m So Tired, Mother Natures Son (just too many slow songs for them).
There may be some jarring jumps between songs (Blackbird-Glass Onion literally being most beautiful to dumbest meme) but that’s kinda accurate to the US albums, especially Yesterday And Today
Damn, you might have just broken the code with this playlist. I might tweak a couple of side 2 numbers but this is a mighty fine listen. Really enjoying the channel, Matt, thanks for all you do!🙏🏼
Thanks for the warm comment. Plenty more to come!
George Martin talks about this in Anthology holding a sheet of paper, which I assume many people think contained "his" song choices. What he said about his approach was clear - he suggested to pick most developed songs and do those, leaving the others to gestate for a while. The only question is what did he consider most developed ones.
Hi -- just found your post and enjoyed your take on the White album --- I put together a Beatles 68 album that has 6 tracks on side one and 8 tracks on side 2 to go with the 68 theme -- Side 1
Revolution 4.15
Dear Prudence 3.56
Cry Baby Cry 3.02
Yer Blues 4.01
Back in the USSR 2.43
While my guitar gently Weeps 4.45
Total Length: 22 minutes 42 seconds
Side 2
Birthday 2.42
Glass Onion 2.18
Blackbird 2.18
Savoy Truffle 2.54
Sexy Sadie 3.15
Martha My Dear 2.28
Helter Skelter 4.30
Happiness is a Warm Gun 2.47
Total Length: 23 minutes 12 seconds
Thank you for taking the time to put the side lengths on! Great list!
This is madly brilliant! :-)
And the back cover art work, with members of the band smoking... :-)
BACK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT by APOLOGETIX, TAKE JUDE by APOLOGETIX, REVELATION by APOLOGETIX,3 great Beatle parodies
That would be cool to listen . Thank you for your information.
Mine is a mix of my favorite songs with a special attention to sequencing to make sure it works as a cohesive album. I also tried to keep the spirit of the white album intact by keeping as much variety in as possible.
Side 1:
Back In The USSR
Dear Prudence
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Don’t Pass Me By
Rocky Raccoon
Julia
Side 2:
Blackbird
Martha My Dear
I’m So Tired
Helter Skelter
Glass Onion
Long Long Long
Revolution 1
I kept tracks 1-2 the same as the original because, well, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. That transitions into Happiness is a Warm Gun just like the original, and I wanted Ringo on side 1 so that goes into Don’t Pass Me By. This transitions into Rocky Raccoon which is the inverse of how it was originally but I think it works just as well. Then I closed side 1 with Julia, similar to how side 2 ended on the original.
I opened side 2 with Blackbird-It’s a great opener and picks up where Julia left off. After that is MMD, which transitions into I’m So Tired like the original. Helter Skelter then brings up the energy of the album. I followed that with Glass Onion because I think it carries over that energy well and the strings at the end sound really good before Long Long Long. Finally I ended the album off with Revolution 1.
You could probably swap Rocky Raccoon for any McCartney acoustic ballad and it’d work just as well. You could maybe change out Martha My Dear with Birthday or Ob-la-di if you wanted to make it more commercial. You could also swap I’m So Tired with Sexy Sadie if you like it more or Everybody’s Got Something To Hide if you wanted something rockier.
Anywho I’ve gone on long enough lol. It’s a fun topic to talk about for sure though
This is a really well-thought out tracklisting. Makes total sense! Thanks for posting it.
I would've added most of your line up on there, but it would go like this with me;
Side One:
1.Back In The U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-la-idi-Ob-la-da
5. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
8. Martha My Dear
9. I'm So Tired
10. Blackbird
11. Piggies
12. Rocky Raccoon
13. Don't Pass Me By
14. Why Don't We Do In The Road?
15. I Will
16. Julia
Side Two:
1. Birthday
2. Yer Blues
3. Mother Nature's Son
4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Helter Skelter
7. Long, Long, long
8. Revolution 1
9. Honey Pie
10. Savoy Truffle
11. Cry Baby Cry
12. Not Guilty
13. Revolution
14. Hey Jude
To me, there would be two versions of Revolution, Revolution 1 would've been the eye opener into how they recorded it and then near end the very uptempo raspberry beat Revolution and accompanying it and closing out the album iconic no. 1 hit for them in '68 "Hey Jude." leading them off into the Get Back and Let It Be projects.
Your 68 LP would have been a captivating work. A sort of glamorous take of the Beatles. Engaging. Charming.
I like the concept of an album compiled by Capitol executives. Brilliant!
I've participated in this topic in many chat rooms and I don't think I've seen two people agree on what to include or leave out. And that's just with the tracks that actually appeared on the White Album. If you include passed over tracks and and 1968 releases - oh my!
I like your choices or, ah-hum, Capitol Records' choices. It would have been a HUGE selling album.
Thank you Dale! I took the pressure off myself, letting the Capitol execs take the blame for any of my selections!
I feel the problem with The Beatles LP is it should and could have been a three album set.
With Not Gulty, Gimme Some Truth with those John and Paul harmonies and all the other songs we know.
And to think critics roasted the album when it came out.
The beauty of the White Album is a new direction and a maturity.
Here's my single disc, using just the songs on the album. John & Paul get 5 each, George gets 3, Ringo 1. I went with mostly commercial songs on side 1 and what I think are the standout tracks. John, Paul and George each get a rocker and a ballad on side 2. You could substitute 'Julia' for 'Cry Baby Cry' as I hated to lose that song.
1. Back in the USSR 8. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
2. Dear Prudence 9. Savoy Truffle
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 10. I'm So Tired
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 11. Mother Nature's Son
5. Happiness Is a Warm Gun 12. Cry Baby Cry
6. Don't Pass Me By 13. Helter Skelter
7. Blackbird 14. Long Long Long
I can't imagine The White Album as a single disc. In fact, my White Album playlist ADDS Hey Jude, Not Guilty and the Sour Milk Sea edit that Matt plays.
Loved this! Very valiant attempt. And that cover mock up...superb! The only caveat I have with it is that the drunks at Capitol would never have crammed seven tracks per side!
You're right - it should really be 12 songs. Capitol would never have given us that much value for a buck. Thanks for the comment, Paul!
@@popgoesthe60s52 It's not just 7 tracks per side, it's a 7 track side two that includes Hey Jude, a track that's about three songs long by itself! I know this is blasphemous, but you know as well as I do that it's true: the ONLY WAY Capitol would have allowed Hey Jude on an album they compiled is if they either made it the closer of a four song album side or else if they faded out Hey Jude at about 3:35.
@@popgoesthe60s52 I doubt that Capitol would have knocked off two tracks after taking Sergeant Pepper with no changes. By 1968 there was enough music press to raise an uproar if Capitol went back to editing what the Beatles submitted. The Beatles and George Martin were already furious with Capitol for revising their work, and the new US rock journals would have had a field day crucifying 'the man.'
I just started listening to a book, "Revolver" by Richard Rodriguez, which states that when the Beatles signed a new contract with EMI in January 1967, not only did they get a substantial raise, but the Beatles also demanded - and received - a guarantee from Capitol USA that they would put out all future releases with all the tracks and in the order submitted. Which is to say that if the Beatles once again put 14 tracks on this hypothetical album, then 14 tracks it would be. Or 15 or 16?
I always felt there were two ways to reduce the White Album to a single disk: 1) keep the songs in the original sequence, but remove the ones you don’t want, and 2) remove the unwanted tracks and re-sequence the remaining tracks into a new order. That would be a fun exercise.
But the White Album’s biggest curse is also its greatest blessing: it’s a wonderful kaleidoscope of moods and styles. Yes, there’s some junk, but those tracks only add to the overall atmosphere. Like the Beatles themselves, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
I enjoy The White Album as a double LP. The only track subs I’d make would be Lady Madonna for Don’t Pass Me By, and Hey Jude for Revolution #9......but then we’d have been deprived of 2 great singles........
George Martin has infuriated some Beatle fans over the years by saying he encouraged the Beatles to make a single album and not a double in regards to the White album. What songs did Martin think should have been left off for a single LP? Even if some suggest "Wild honey pie" and "Revolution no 9" could have been discarded for not being real songs it still left 28 quality songs for a single album.
He also suggested Bungalo Bill and Rocky Racoon.
I find those songs charming to listen to but thanks for letting me know that.@@popgoesthe60s52
I just found this post. What a great exercise. As I was watching what you did and why I was impressed with the seriousness of thought you put into this. I love the album artwork and verbiage. Also having three solos in a row was a great choice.
I don’t know what life would have been like without having Rocky Raccoon and Piggies. When I was in 7th grade I went to Girl Scout Camp and they were staging a Learning Trail that had different stops where the girls would learn something new. I asked if I could teach a song. The leaders trusted me to choose and teach a song. I chose Piggies. The girls loved it and the counselors were horrified. 😆 I didn’t think damn was a swear word.
I must think about this and see what angle I would use and then sift through the songs to see what would be appropriate.
Your Piggies story is a good one! Thanks for the comment, Becky!
Love the Art design and Great selection! mine has 8 songs per side
Side One:
1. Birthday
2. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
3. Honey Pie
4. Savoy Truffle
5. Blackbird
6. Don´t Pass Me By
7. Martha My Dear
8. Happiness is a Warm Gun
Side Two:
1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Cry Baby Cry
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
6. Sexy Sadie
7. Helter Skelter / Revolution 9 (edited)
8. GoodNight
regards!!!
Whenever I make a playlist for the car or burned a CD, I replaced #9 with "Hey Jude". Finishing with "Good Night" was a great end, but the post suggesting ending with "Helter Skelter" now has me rethinking.
A little off the direct topic, but I always felt songs like "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" should've been released as "McCartney only" and #9 as "Lennon only" on other singles or albums.
What a great substitution! That is really perfect. I agree especially with Maxwell and I may do a video on just that song as well as Revolution 9 since both are so polarizing. I think Maxwell is ok but of all the later day Beatles songs, this one would have been better not being recorded by the Beatles. Some people are ga-ga over it, some people hate it. These are always the best topics!
@@popgoesthe60s52 You could include "Octopus's Garden" as a Ringo single. They all could've played on them, just not under the Beatle's name.
I like your premise for the album & from that your song choices work, but I think I'd remove Bungalow Bill, which I think is a bit scrappy and not really needed when you have Cry Baby Cry & Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and I'd replace it with Long Long Long, while it is a strong favourite of mine and not a hit song, I think it is really beautiful and it would give the album a greater sense of quality.
I did this once using the rationale of EMI giving them a deadline of the middle of August 68 to finish recording. It turned out to be a very patchy album indeed.
Obladi, Wild Honey pie, Bunglow Bill, While my guitar, Blackbird, Rocky, Don’t pass me, Yer Blues, Mother Natures Son, Me and my monkey, Sadie, Revolution 1&9 Goodnight.
Having lived through it, I can only say, the double album with its white cover, inserts etc was great fun. You really had to spend time with it to get to know your favorites. I think some songs like Birthday, Don’t pass me by, Rocky Raccoon, or helter skelter weren’t up to par for Beatles songs and would’ve been happy to exchange them for others in their catalog.
Your mock album artwork is amazing! Down to the liner notes its spot on. Great job! Interesting track picks, but makes sense with the parameters you laid down. Great video.
Much thanks! More to come.
A
1. Dear Prudence
2. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
3. Everybody's Got Something To Hide
4. Sexy Sadie
5. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
6. Don't Pass Me By
7. Blackbird
B
8. Happiness is a Warm Gun
9. Helter Skelter
10. I'm So Tired
11. Cry Baby Cry
12. Julia
13. Long Long Long
14. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Sticking with album tracks only... what I think are the best songs on the album. Hard ones to cut were Yer Blues, Glass Onion, and Rocky Raccoon.
Hey Matt, at the 1965 Sam Houston Coliseum afternoon show, in 1965, when introducting Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Lennon brings up the idea of "Beatles 1980" , would be cool to have that as an album that never was. Whenever I am coloring a video, I always tune into your channel, great content!
Thank you!
I'm a little late to this party, but I've always felt that the interesting question is what impact it would have had on the Get Back/Let It Be sessions? Would those sessions have turned out better if they had more material that was closer to being ready?
I was kind of freaked out that when he said a scaled down to one disc white album, Back in the ussr and Dear Prudence were the exact two song that came to my mind first!
I love your picks. I would buy that album! If I was picking? I am one of those who loves the "White album" just as it is. But if I HAD TOO, I would change it to look like this....
Side 1
1. Revolution
2. Glass Onion
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Yer Blues
5. Helter Skelter
6. Savoy Truffle
7. Birthday
Side 2
1. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
2. Back in the U.S.S.R.
3. Dear Prudence
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
5. Martha My Dear
6. I'm So Tired
7. Don't Pass Me By
And to those who will say no "Blackbird", "Hey Jude", "I Will", "Julia"...... I GET IT!! That is why I started off by saying "I am one of those who loves the White album just as it is. It was so hard to boil it down to 14 tracks. I think "Don't Pass Me By" is OK, not a personal favorite. But I had to give Ringo at least one song!
My sentiments exactly! While the “White Album” will always be considered a “classic late 60s” Rock album there are “bits” that could have been cut out. Going for a time period “Capitol” look may have been a good idea after all. We were beginning to lose the Beatles as a group and a commercial look may have drawn new younger fans to them. For the older fans it would have been “business as usual” and quite a “comfortable” fit. The stark cover of the “White Album” was confusing to say the least. “Hey Jude” would have been a proper closer. Great work, thanks!
Much thanks, Scott!
Another great video from yourself , just waiting for others to catch up with your output , it’ll come
Thank you David!
Definitely I'd include Savoy Truffle in a single album.
I thought, what if it had simply been issued as two albums, one following the other? And what if the first one contained most of the "experimental" or odd songs, without losing too much commercial appeal, and the second one more a traditional album:
A:
Back in the U.S.S.R. 2:43
Glass Onion 2:17
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3:09
Wild Honey Pie 1:02
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 3:05
I'm so tired 2:03
Why don't we do it in the road? 1:41
Birthday 2:43
Mother Nature's Son 2:48
B:
Everybody's Got Something to Hide
Except Me and My Monkey 2:55
Sexy Sadie 3:15
Long, Long, Long 3:04
Savoy Truffle 2:55
Cry Baby Cry 3:11
Revolution 9 8:13
Good Night 3:12
(Total: 48:16)
A:
Revolution I 4:16
Happiness is a Warm Gun 2:44
Blackbird 2:18
Julia 2:45
Martha My Dear 2:29
Piggies 2:05
Honey Pie 2:41
I Will 1:47
B:
Don't Pass Me By 3:42
Rocky Raccoon 3:41
Yer Blues 4:01
Helter Skelter 4:30
Dear Prudence 3:57
(Can You Take Me Back) :28
While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4:45
(Total: 47:09)
Side One...
*As My Guitar Gently Weeps
*Glass Onion
*Happiness Is A Warm Gun
*Helter Skelter
*Julia
*Blackbird
*Cry Baby Cry
*Long Long, Long
Side Two...
*Back In The USSR
*Dear Prudence
*Savoy Truffle
*Revolution
*Sexy Sadie
*... Gently Weeps (new strings version)
*Good Night (anthology version)
Great seeing 4 George songs! Thanks for the track listing!
An excellent Frankenstein creation. I love the concept and the back story you created for this.
The album tracks you chose are great. I think I’d choose “Rocky Racoon” instead of “Bungalow Bill”, and I’d make sure “I Will” got on there somehow, and bump one of the others, if need be.
We are no longer under the law of sin and death. Announcer I don't know your name but you are doing a great job and I am sure all these Beatles people truly appreciate your vids. They're so interesting. Thank you so much.
Much thanks, JBlue!
I'm a huge, longtime Beatles fan...and I've never heard ANYBODY talk about it being a single album.
George Martin brought it up for DECADES
A 3 lp/ 6 sided edition would be great. Using the leftover/not used tracks plus Hey Bulldog, All Together Now, All Too Much (the 8 + minute Version) and Only a Northern Song, Lady Madonna and The Inner Light, too.
Here's my current single disc white album (my track list changes every time I do it):
1. Back in the USSR
2. Dear Prudence
3. Ob la di
4. Mother Nature's Son
5. Helter Skelter
6. Bungalow Bill
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Happiness is a Warm Gun
9. Blackbird
10. Yer Blues
11. Everybody's got something to hide
12. Rocky Racoon
13. Sexy Sadie
14. Cry Baby Cry
15. I Will
16. I'm so Tired
17. Julia
Very enjoyable video. I sure would be keen to know why the fantastic "Hey Bulldog", recorded in February of 1968, was left off the White (Double) Album in the first place. I think it would have deserved inclusion even if the White Album were pruned down to a single disc. It seems to me it would have been one of the double album's highlights, and its inclusion would have granted it much greater fame, which it richly deserved.
Yeah, I've always been a fan of Hey Bulldog, it always sounded like it had single potential. It certainly gets talked about a lot now and I still hear bands do it live. Maybe they thought it was recorded too early or they left it for the Yellow Sub project, but it would have fit on the White Album for sure. Thanks for the comment!